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• Alan Lodge Virtual User Number or Id

  Is there a way to retrieve the id (or thread number) of the specific virtual users that is executing a unit test There is no built-in virtual user number that is accessible to the unit test running in a load test. However, since more than one person has asked about this now, you can add the following method to your unit test class which will return a virtual user id. The only caveats are that this won't reall ...Show All

• BenMo timestamp on local files during tf get

  When I get files from the server into my workspace, the datetime on the file is forced to be the current time. (Eg. the time of the tf get.) Is there any way to have the original modification time for the file preserved on the local file I am hoping there is a project-level configuration setting similar to what was available in VSS. In v1 we do not have that option in TFS. Buck ...Show All

• Mark Magoo "My work-items" on team project's site

  What's the easiest way to get a list of active work-items that have been assigned to the user I've been playing around with this, and I got the following two problems: 1. I don't know how (if at all possible) to set the URL parameters to Reporting Services, to indicate that only work-items for the current user should be shown. 2. Using the web page view web-part in WSS, the size of the zones (left or right) that are available on the proj ...Show All

• Dr. NO Adding links or attachments to Work Items in the Process Template

  Hi,     Is it possible to attach files or add hyperlinks to work items in the process template plug-in for work item tacking         I need my custom process template to create work items with references to external files (Word documents in my case). The file could be an attachment or an hyperlink to a file in the project portal.     To clarify myself I'll give an example: I have adde ...Show All

• supercalafragalistic Team Systems Question

  How does Microsoft Team Edition for software testers stack up against Mercury Winrunner Is there a side by side comparison of the two My company is debating on which one we should purchase Maybe it is a difficult question because the product is still in beta. Thanks Brian Yes, Load testing too. I am planning on using more then one testing tool, so I can cross reference the results. I read of another software called Open STA for example, a ...Show All

• Jake42 Collaboration Over Internet

  Does the current beta 2 version of TFS support project collaboration over internet I follow the installation guide comes with the distribution and the visual installation walkthrough at http://www.oazabir.com/vsts/index.html , but the result is pretty much a system that could only support team collaboration for members in the same domain rather than a system that could bring developers together from all parts of the world via internet. ...Show All

• davidw Team Foundation

  Hi, I am new to Team Foundation Server. I want to implement this in my organization need to know where to start , also integration with clients all needs to be done in this. Thanks Sunil Unnithan I am not sure what your exact requirements are but there is a lot of material out there that should get you started. Check out the Team System home page to begin with and then I would highly recommend the various product team blogs as well as the ...Show All

• Sharron TFS Connection Exception

  I've had TFS Beta 3 running well for a few days.  Today, I'm unable to open my project from Team Explorer and the server is full of the following event log entries.  Any thoughts Event Type: Error Event Source: Tfs Event Category: None Event ID: 3000 Date:  10/13/2005 Time:  2:42:46 PM User:  N/A Computer: PRSNETTEAM Description: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foun ...Show All

• Tycotrix Team Project Creation failed because of some user account problems

  I used a single-server mode and encountered the following error: Error TF30004: The New Team Project Wizard encountered an unexpected error while initializing the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in. Explanation TF30171: The Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in used to create the new team project could not be initialized and returned the following error: TF30224: Failed to retrieve projects from the report ...Show All

• DeeTonya Where can I find information about MSF 4.0

  Has MSF 4.0 been published If so, where can I get a copy The only information that appears on the Microsoft website seems to be about v3.0 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msf/default.mspx Will Depends on what you are looking for... there are a few books and white-papers coming out on VSTS & MSFv4.  For instance, Sam is writing a book on Software Engineering with VSTS, Randy is writing a book on Agile Developme ...Show All

• BANKS Team Explorer doesn't respect filesystem encryption settings

  I've got an encrypted folder (called 'Dev') on my laptop where the source is stored. When Team Explorer creates subfolders within the 'Dev' folder the folders are encrypted, but the files it creates are not. I've done this in the past with Source Safe and it worked fine, but it appears that when Team Explorer places a file on the file system it doesn't respect the folder settings for encryption. Even if I manually set the file to be encrypted, t ...Show All

• v1c Testing an outside website and going to an ISA server

  One of our environments (our staging env.) can only be accessed via the Internet. That means if I need to access this site, my request needs to go out through the ISA server on the the Internet to the staging environment. I have no problems recording, but the playback even after I have set the proxy, my id and password is failing. The response header shows: HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authoriz ...Show All

• webm0nk3y Limit scope of GET?

  I trying to convert a very large project to Team Foundation build. I am wondering if there is some way to limit the scope of the GET that is done to get the source. Right now it is starting at the top of our tree and I believe eventually timing out on getting the source and then failing the build. Can I somehow point it at the Sources node within the tree instead of the root Does this help http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/arch ...Show All

• SimplyPhil Error 32000 The Commandline "F:\TFS\Tools\Createds.exe"/Setup/install ...

  While installing Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh (Single-Server installation)an error {Error 32000 The Commandline "F:\TFS\Tools\Createds.exe"/Setup/install " http://kaushal-2k3/ReportServer/ReportService.asmx " tfsREportDS "Data Source = KAUSHAL-2k3;intial catalog=TFSWarehouse" "KAUSHAL-2k3\TFSREPORTS"} is displayed. INstalled Prerequistes:     OS Windows 2003 Server.    Windows Share point Services. &nb ...Show All

• Keidy Sakamoto Explanation of DoNotCallOverridableMethodsInConstructors

  I am getting a DoNotCallOverridableMethodsInConstructors rule violation in my code. I understand the rule when i read the help the only problem is that my code doesnt call a virtual method from the constructor. It's calling a regular public method. The only funny thing about that method is that it implements an interface on the class. Do methods that fufill an interface contract become virtual automagically Here is an example of code that vio ...Show All